Resource Category: Black food sovereignty

The Intersection of Food Insecurity, Anti-Black Racism, and a Guaranteed Livable Income: A Conversation with Paul Taylor from FoodShare Toronto

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: Appointed
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Income, Policy, Poverty, Racial Equity, Right to Food
• Format: Audio
• Type: Podcast

Discussion with Paul Taylor, the Executive Director of FoodShare Toronto on a guaranteed livable income, the origins of food banks in Canada and their ineffectiveness in addressing food insecurity, and the ways in which racism, social services, and income and housing inequality intersect to create the racialization of hunger.

Making Our Food Fairer: Don’t Call Me Resilient

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: The Conversation
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Decolonization, Food Justice, Indigenous food sovereignty, Movement Building, Policy, Racial Equity
• Format: Audio
• Type: Podcast

Tabitha Robin Martens, Assistant Professor UBC, speaks with Melana Roberts, President of Food Secure Canada, about our country’s food systems and how they intersect with culture, colonization, and the lives of BIPOC.

Toronto Black Food Sovereignty Plan

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: City of Toronto
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Income, Policy, Racial Equity, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Document
• Type: Strategy/Action Plan

City of Toronto’s Black Food Sovereignty Plan, the first in so-called Canada to respond to the need for immediate and comprehensive action to address the problem of food insecurity experienced by many Black Torontonians.

Why eliminating food insecurity requires dismantling anti-Black racism

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: PROOF
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Racial Equity
• Format: Audio
• Type: Podcast

This special podcast presentation explores a recent study, “Black–white racial disparities in household food insecurity from 2005 to 2014, Canada” published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.

Beyond a Black Square: How charities and nonprofits can combat anti-Black racism and white supremacy in their organizations

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: FoodShare Toronto
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Food Justice, Poverty, Racial Equity
• Format: Website/page
• Type: Blog post

Blog post from Paul Taylor, FoodShare Toronto on anti-Black racism and white supremacy in non-profits.

Anti-Asian Racism in Farmers’ Markets: A Toolkit for Markets and their Teams

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: Equity in Farmers Markets Working Group
• Category: Agriculture, Black food sovereignty, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Document, Website/page
• Type: Guide/toolkit

Toolkit to assist Farmers Markets in the shared goal of making Farmers Markets more equitable for farmers of colour, especially Black and Indigenous farmers, who have historically and are currently being shut out of the benefits of participating in Farmers Markets.